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Political Thought in Portugal and its Empire, c.1500-1800: Volume 1 by Nuno Goncalo Monteiro
RRP: £30.99£22.85Showcasing texts by Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian authors, this volume demonstrates the wealth of the political thought of early modern Portugal and its empire. Gathering together important texts on social order, government, and politics by authors who... -
Introducing the Sociology of Food and Eating by Anne Murcott
RRP: £24.99£23.26This textbook equips students with the ability to analyze and think critically about contemporary food topics. A thorough introduction to the sociology of food and eating, the book also acts as a primer to the discipline of sociology more generally. ... -
The Languages of Archaeology: Dialogue, Narrative, and Writing by Rosemary Joyce 9780631221791
RRP: £47.95£41.78This volume provides the first critical examination of the relationship between archaeology and language, analysing the rhetorical practices through which archaeologists create representations of the past.About the AuthorRosemary A. Joyce is Associate... -
From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences by Arpad Szakolczai 9781108438384
RRP: £26.99£22.80Presenting a ground-breaking revitalization of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and sociology. Using concepts developed by a series of 'maverick' anthropologists who... -
Weber: Sociologist of Empire by Kieran Allen 9780745337449
RRP: £16.99£13.58Max Weber is one of the founding fathers of sociology. He is often referred to as a sophisticated 'value-free' sociologist. This new critical introduction argues that Weber's sociology cannot be divorced from his political standpoint. Weber saw himself... -
Lobbying From Below Mick Ryan 9781857282566
RRP: £47.99£41.81This volume examines the origins and development of the pressure group, INQUEST, and its struggle for penal reform, against the backdrop of the intense political and social upheaval that characterized the late 1970s and 1980s.Book InformationISBN... -
The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism by Isabelle Guérin 9781503636903
RRP: £19.99£17.54Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the wheel of financialized capitalism. Globally, women are responsible for managing household debt, and that debt has exploded over the last decade, reaching an all-time high after the... -
Playing War: Military Video Games After 9/11 by Matthew Thomas Payne
RRP: £24.99£21.67Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in understanding the War on Terror No video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the "military shooter." Franchises such as Call of Duty,... -
Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault
RRP: £13.95£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679752554Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Social Suffering by Arthur Kleinman
RRP: £30.00£23.69"Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people--and also human responses to social... -
Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body by Lennard J. Davis 9780814719503
RRP: £21.99£19.19With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the... -
Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction David Fleming 9781846316395
RRP: £10.99£10.02Between 1500 and 1870, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic by European traders to work as slaves in the Americas. They were shipped in conditions of great cruelty to lead lives of hard, unremitting labour, subject to degradation and... -
Domestic Violence Perpetrators: Evidence-Informed Responses John Devaney 9781138480483
RRP: £46.99£40.97Domestic violence is a serious, widespread public, social and health problem that affects the lives of many women, children and men. There is also evidence to suggest it has one of the highest rates of recidivism. This comprehensive book provides an... -
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion by Lisa Rofel
RRP: £23.99£21.24In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas... -
Fall of the West, The: The Story behind Covid, the Levelling-Down of the West and the Shift of Power to the East with the Rise of China Nicholas Hagger 9781789049497
RRP: £17.99£15.39In The Syndicate (2004) Nicholas Hagger described how in the 20th century a Syndicate of elitist mega-rich families levelled down the leading Western countries by promoting revolutions, wars and independence movements against their empires, and planned a... -
Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan by Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
RRP: £25.00£19.59Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and... -
Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities: Issues for Policy and Practice by Ravi K. Thiara
RRP: £29.99£29.09While forced marriage and 'honour-based' violence attract media attention, little is known about the issues and experiences of South Asian women and children who are affected by gendered violence.This book explores the key theoretical and empirical... -
Galen's Prophecy: Temperament In Human Nature by Jerome Kagan
RRP: £48.99£48.12Nearly two thousand years ago a physician named Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behaviour could be explained by an individual's temperament. Since that time, inborn dispositions have fallen in and out of favour. Based on... -
Wizard Of Upper Amazon by Bruce Lamb
RRP: £16.99£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780938190806Author F. Bruce LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Quantity and Quality in Social Research by Alan Bryman
RRP: £44.99£39.28This book focuses upon the debate about quantitative and qualitative research which took root in the 1960s, although many of the central themes go back centuries. The basic terms of the debate have been felt in many of the disciplines which make up the... -
Key Concepts and Theory in Social Work by David Hodgson 9781137487834
£34.23Social work is a discipline committed to social justice and human rights, and to improving the well-being of individuals, families, communities and societies. But the world is changing, with environmental disasters, an increase in violent conflict and... -
Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World by Frederic Martel 9780262537056
RRP: £17.99£13.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537056Author Frederic MartelFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out by Luisa Capetillo
RRP: £11.99£8.43In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested for wearing men's trousers in public. This act of rebellion was the result of a lifelong devotion to socialist and feminist thought. And this zeal runs throughout her brilliant essays: in the... -
Digital Feudalism: Creators, Credit, Consumption, and Capitalism David Arditi (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) 9781804557693
RRP: £17.99£13.22Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world. As a result, the global economy has undergone a massive shift, changing the way we work, consume and pay for things. Under this new... -
Ancient Trees in the Landscape: Norfolk's arboreal heritage by Gerry Barnes 9781905119394
RRP: £29.95£27.73Ancient Trees in the Landscape is the outcome of many years research into the history of trees in Norfolk, and represents the first detailed, published account of the ancient and traditionally managed trees of any English county. Yet it is far more... -
Two-Way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China: The Scottish Missionary-Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887) Ian Gow 9780367722456
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book is a biography of a remarkable Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact with a gift and passion for languages and mathematics. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer,... -
Absolutely awesome South Africa by Derryn Campbell 9780620659680
RRP: £25.00£21.28More of the best, craziest, biggest and funniest! Absolutely Awesome South Africa is an entertaining compilation on South Africa which is packed full of fun, facts and trivia. This completely new coffee table book is packed with completely new content... -
Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite by D. Michael Lindsay
RRP: £13.99£10.84Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power in the White House and on Wall Street, at Harvard and in Hollywood. How have they reached the pinnacles of power in such a short time? And what does this mean for evangelicals--and for... -
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Ransby 9780520292710
RRP: £15.99£12.37This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women... -
Women of Honour: Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in Italy's Mafias by Milka Kahn
RRP: £15.99£14.47The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male-dominated society, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. It is hard to picture these... -
Museum Learning: Theory and Research as Tools for Enhancing Practice Jill Hohenstein (Carleton University) 9781138901131
RRP: £39.99£35.06As museums are increasingly asked to demonstrate not only their cultural, but also their educational and social significance, the means to understand how museum visitors learn becomes ever more important. And yet, learning can be conceptualised and... -
Prison Policy in Ireland: Politics, Penal-Welfarism and Political Imprisonment by Mary Rogan 9780415616195
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland. Despite sharing a legal and penal heritage with the United Kingdom, Ireland's prison policy has taken a different path. This book examines how penal-welfarism was experienced... -
Connecting with children: Developing working relationships Vera Lomazzi (Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences) 9781847420589
RRP: £24.99£20.39"Connecting with children: developing working relationships" focuses on how adults connect with children and develop supportive relationships. It illustrates how good communication and positive and participative relationships can be developed with... -
Lairds, Land and Sustainability: Scottish Perspectives on Upland Management by Jayne Glass
RRP: £28.99£26.91This is a critical study of Scotland's land use and ownership. Scotland is at the heart of modern sustainable upland management. Large estates cover vast areas of mountain environment in Scotland, with a deeply historical and unique tradition of land... -
Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World Trena M. Paulus (East Tennessee State University) 9781544321585
RRP: £76.00£71.36While some qualitative methods texts touch upon online communities as a potential data source, show how to conduct interviews and focus groups online, or select recording devices and analysis software, no book to date has guided readers in the creation... -
Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory Lizzie Seal 9781138961296
RRP: £36.99£32.53Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed - it was an issue that had become increasingly controversial, high-profile and fraught with... -
Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts And Latin American Culture by Lucia Sa 9780816643257
RRP: £20.99£18.37A redrawing of the lineage of Brazilian and Spanish-American literatures, this book advocates an understanding of the relationships between cultures as a process of "transculturation" rather than "acculturation"-a process that emphasizes the... -
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A Pragmatic Approach by David L. Morgan 9780761915232
RRP: £76.00£67.24Focusing on research designs for projects that collect both qualitative and quantitative data, this practical book discusses strategies for bringing qualitative and quantitative methods together so that their combined strengths accomplish more than is... -
Creating Participatory Research: Principles, Practice and Reality by Louise Warwick-Booth
RRP: £27.99£21.57What is participatory research, and how can participatory methods be implemented in practice? This valuable textbook provides an accessible, pragmatic how-to guide for using participatory methods in research. Drawing on their variety of experience in the... -
Elements of Archaeological Conservation by J. M. Cronyn
RRP: £39.99£35.46Clearly laid out and fully illustrated, this is the only comprehensive book on the subject at an introductory level.Perfect as a practical reference book for professional and students who work with excavated materials, and as an introduction for those...